Energy & environment

E-learning

To inform younger students about Energy and Environment, Science, Chemistry, English culture and English language, with accompanying images, interviews and videos.

E-learning

To inform younger students about Energy and Environment, Science, Chemistry, English culture and English language, with accompanying images, interviews and videos.

Clilinaction

CLIL will no longer be a secret with"clil in action"! Watch the lessons on physics, biology, earth science and chemistry, in CLIL mode, the result of the synergy of Eniscuola with the students and teachers of Italian schools.

Smartenglish

Scienze in classe

Studying physics, biology, earth science and chemistry has never been so stimulating! Supplement the classroom lessons with those that Eniscuola has created for you with the teachers and students of Italian schools.

Necst

We are a partner of the NECST project , the European Union programme that connects schools in Croatia, Holland, Norway and Italy in the creation of a digital platform for research and exchange of knowledge on energy production.

Schoolnet

A storyboard full of texts and drawings to narrate one's country in an original manner: letting loose the imagination of children around the world in the 2014 edition. And for the winners, production of animated short films!

Miller’s experiment

In 1952 the American professor Harold Clayton Urey, Nobel prize for chemistry in 1934, asked a young researcher, Stanley Lloyd Miller, to perform an experiment. Inside a glass bottle, Miller put some extremely hot water and in another one he put a Hydrogen mix (H2). ammonia (NH3) and methane (CH4), which are all those gasses that combined with water vapour (H2O)were thought to have created the primordial atmosphere. Hot water, which according to scientists was in the primitive ocean, created vapour that passed through a tube and went to the container that held the gas mix. Inside this container they generated 60.000 volt electric discharges so as to reproduce the probably very frequent and powerful storm phenomena which occurred at the time when the planet was forming. The experiment was carried out for a whole week and in the end they were amazed to see that in the water container there was a red – orange liquid which had many compounds, particularly some amino acids, that are the precursors of proteins that are the main components of every living being.
Miller’s experiment proved that from simple compounds, that were thought to be in the primordial atmosphere, there could be the formation of complex molecules, those that are found in organic compounds of all living organisms. So the assumption was that the biologic precursors of living beings could have formed with a simple chemical synthesis process in a primitive atmosphere with frequent storm phenomena, heat and ultraviolet radiation. After that rains would have carried these simple organic compounds to the sea, where they could subsequently change and grow.
Anyway, creating amino acids in a laboratory doesn’t mean that one is creating a living organism, but obviously this was a step forward in the abiotic (that is chemical) formation of living beings.
From then on scientists performed many variations of Miller’s experiment. It is possible to modify the gas mixture, change the temperature, use a different energy form from electric discharges, but the final result will always be the same: organic substance.

Many sea animals, including a lot of fish and molluscs that live in the dark in the ocean depths...

eniscuola energy&environment

"Eniscuola Energy and Environment" is a project run by eni to promote awareness of energy and environmental issues amongst students. In the Italian version, the website also offers digital lessons on Art, Science and English language.

"Eniscuola Energy and Environment" is a project run by eni to promote awareness of energy and environmental issues amongst students.
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In the Italian version, the website also offers digital lessons on Art, Science and English language, produced in collaboration with Italian high schools (eniscuola culture and eniscuola in the classroom).

With the sponsorship of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research